Bug 647196

Summary: RFE: Virtio nic should support "ethtool -i virtio nic"
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Laszlo Ersek <lersek>
Component: kernelAssignee: Laszlo Ersek <lersek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 4.9CC: juzhang, lersek, michen, mjenner, mkenneth, mkhusid, virt-maint, ykaul
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Clone Of: 645646 Environment:
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add get_drvinfo() to virtio_net none

Description Laszlo Ersek 2010-10-27 14:17:40 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #645646 +++

RHEL4 virtio_net doesn't support "ethtool -i" (KVM guest):

    # uname -r
    2.6.9-89.ELsmp

    # ethtool -i eth0
    Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
Comment 1 Laszlo Ersek 2010-10-27 14:21:02 UTC 
Created attachment 455988 [details]
add get_drvinfo() to virtio_net

    # uname -r
    2.6.9-90.ELrhel4.virtio_net.drvinfosmp

    # ethtool -i eth0
    driver: virtio_net
    version:
    firmware-version:
    bus-info: virtio0
Comment 2 Vivek Goyal 2010-12-14 13:53:56 UTC 
Committed in 93.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-02-16 16:05:34 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0263.html